[Ravenshayde]

The overnight ratings for Doctor Who’s “A Good Man Goes To War” saw 5.5 million tuning in to see the episode live. That’s half a million up on last week, and a fantastic result when you consider the competition Who was up against.

Doctor Who’s audience share – just 25.4%


Source: SFX

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Ravenshayde, on 09 June 2011 - 05:57 AM, said:

The overnight ratings for Doctor Who’s “A Good Man Goes To War” saw 5.5 million tuning in to see the episode live. That’s half a million up on last week, and a fantastic result when you consider the competition Who was up against.

Doctor Who’s audience share – just 25.4%


Source: SFX

Any US scifi show would kill for those numbers...

[Cylon-Knight]

Yeah, why is that?! WHY do we have "X LAME REALITY SHOW" on every channel?! Where is the entertainment?

[I Voted Baltar]

Sadly, its cheap and the phone in votes are a money maker - so they'll stretch out reality shows as much as they can as they're financially more stable.

Such a share in the UK is still massively impressive. There's hundreds of channels to pick from, most of them are trash or repeats, or the usual suspects (cop show, reality show, Friends STILL on repeat) so it's no surprise they've got another 14 episodes already in the bag.

Besides, if the ratings did dip 5-10% - there's still merchandising and other things to consider that are still bringing in the cash.

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Finally it came to our shores (frakking BBC-America!) ... but well worth the wait! Nice, "Empire Strikes Back"-style revelation at the end.

[I Voted Baltar]

Would you believe there are places selling the writing on t-shirts already?

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I Voted Baltar, on 12 June 2011 - 04:04 AM, said:

Would you believe there are places selling the writing on t-shirts already?

Not surprised....

And on a somewhat unrelated bit, but when I first saw the wooden crib, my first thought was "It's Susan's!"
It is kind of weird that the Doctor NEVER mentions any of his offspring, when we KNOW he's had them (rather hard to have a granddaughter without a daughter, I'd think).
(And for the non-old school DW fans, Susan was the Doctor's obnoxious, over-acting 'granddaughter' in the first two series, in 1963-64).

"Overacting again, eh child? Mmm?"

"Grraaaaandfather, NO!"


I can just feel the histrionics about to explode....

[I Voted Baltar]

I'm sure family have been mentioned before in the Tennant era. I can't find the quote, but I remember someone asking him if he had any family, or if he was a parent or something.

This will bug me... off to google I go!